Street Vendors are an important part of urban economy and provide goods and services at affordable prices and are located at convenient locations. Therefore, planners need to integrate this important use in the local area plans

1. Ar. Mukesh Ruhela
Asstt. Architect Planner, UPHDB
Prof. Subodh Shankar
Former Chief Architect Planner, UPHDB
Former Professor, Integral & Amity University, Lucknow
Integrating Street Vendors into Local Area Plans
- a case of Indira Nagar, Lucknow

5. A Street Vendor……
As per National Policy For Urban Street Vendors-
A street vendor is broadly defined as a person who offers goods
or services for sale to the public without having a permanent built
up structure but with a temporary static structure or mobile stall .
They may be stationary by occupying space on the pavements
or other public/private areas, or may be mobile in the sense that
they move from place to place carrying their wares on push carts
or in cycles or baskets on their heads, or may sell their wares in
moving bus etc.

6. Street vending was illegal in urban India for almost six decades
until the passage of the Street Vendors Act in 2014.
Despite the law having legalised the activity, the default policy in
most cities across India is to clamp down on street hawkers.
Yet street vending remains a viable source of employment for
many.
As the pace of urbanisation increases across India, greater number
of street traders will contest for space at affordable price- a difficult
proposition for urban managers

7. Clearing streets, footpaths and transport terminals of vendors and
hawkers, and confiscating their goods, is a daily municipal activity.
For their part, the street vendors continue to claim their space in
the cities to earn their living.
In a cat-and-mouse game, local officials ignore hawkers when
convenient and tighten the rules on them when exigencies have
demanded preventive action

8. The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and
Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014
 The Act aims to protect the livelihood of street vendors and
provide them with a conducive environment for carrying out their
business.
 It covers all varieties of vending and defines the mobile vendor,
stationary vendor and street vendor.
 The Act mentions vending in a street, lane, sidewalk, footpath,
pavement, public park or any public place or private area.
 It stipulates that cities will establish Town Vending Committees
(TVC) with members drawn from all stakeholders—including
hawkers themselves

9. The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and
Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014
 The Act provides for designating Vending and Non- Vending Zones
 It states maximum number of street vendors who can be
accommodated in any vending zone. If number exceeds, draw of
lots
 A maximum of 2.5 % of a city’s population could be accommodated
in the vending zones, depending on the holding capacity.
 The Act does not take into consideration the total number of current
vendors and the potential increase in their numbers in the future.
 The Act also states that the plan for street vending will contain
consequential changes needed in the existing master plan,
development plan, zonal plan, layout plan etc. for accommodating
street vendors in the designated vending zones.

10. Let us Recognise……
 Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies
 They offer easy access to a wide range of goods and
services in public spaces
 They sell everything from fresh vegetables to prepared
foods, from building materials to garments and crafts, from
consumer electronics to auto repairs to haircuts.
 They provide the main source of income for their
households, bringing food to their families and paying
school fees for their children
 They create jobs, not only for themselves but for porters,
security guards, transport operators, storage providers,
and others.
 Street trade also adds vibrancy to urban life

11. Way Ahead
 Let us first of all recognise that street vending has the potential to add to the efficiency
of a city
 Street vending must become a planned activity written into the urban planning and
operational statutes.
 Vendors should be placed where they can easily find business and this must be
achieved without impeding pedestrians, moving traffic and any other city activity.
 Adequate amount of land along roads around transportation terminals, hospitals,
government offices, business centres etc. must be allocated for vending areas
 Vendors should have access to facilities such as safe drinking water, hygienic toilets,
electricity and storage facilities.
 BUT all at Affordable Price

12. Street Vendors in India
 India 100.00 Lakh
 Mumbai 2.50 Lakh
 Delhi 4.50 Lakh
 Kolkata 1.50 Lakh
 Ahmadabad 1.00 Lakh
 Most of them are immigrants or laid-off workers, work for
an average 10–12 hours a day, and remain impoverished.

13. Bhubaneswar Model of integrating Street Vendors into
City Plans-A Unique Public-Private Partnership Model
Bhubaneswar is among the first cities in India to acknowledge street vendors as an
integral part of the city and to manage and support them through a complex
public, private, and community partnership model
Success Factors
1. Political Will: Acknowledgement of vending as a legitimate profession
2. Able leadership from the Vendors’ side
3. Social Dialogue: Consensus building and allowing multiple voices in debates
4. Effective Partnership among Local body, Vendors and Private Partners
A three Phased Approach
Phase-1: Mapping of vendors’ spatial distribution jointly by Town Authorities and
Vendors Association
Phase-2: Six month Probation period- only bamboo structures permitted
Phase-3: Issue of Permits and construction of Iron Kiosks in partnership with private
sector

14. The Bhubaneswar Model

15. A Case of Indira Nagar, Lucknow

16. Lucknow Scenario
 As per LMC- 27,000 Vendors in Lucknow while the street
vendors’ association said there were around one Lakh
 175 Vending Zones
 LMC had come up with first list of 24 vending
zones providing permanent vending spots to about 1,500
vendors

18. Indira Nagar, Lucknow
 Located along Lucknow Faizabad National Highway in the Trans
Gomti area in the near vicinity of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
(HAL)
 Scheme-1 comprising of 550 acres (7 sectors) was planned in
1972-73 as Bastauli Ghazipur Grahasthan Yojna
 Scheme -2 known as Indira Nagar Vistar having an area of 750
acres (18 sectors) annexed to scheme 1 in 1982-83
 Both schemes, now known as Indira Nagar, planned as housing
colonies
 Indira nagar caters to a population of more than 3 Lakh
 Scheme Land marks are Bhoothnath Market and Munshipulia
 Now the scheme is also served by Lucknow Metro

19. Indira Nagar, Lucknow

21. Vegetable Market- Sector-5 Indira Nagar, Lucknow
 Way back in 1979, a need was felt to relocate the street vendors spread in the vicinity of Bhoothnath temple & market.
 A project consisting of 319 numbers, 2m.x2m. open platforms was prepared. Initially only make shift temporary sheds were
permitted. On buyers demand single storey pucca structure was allowed.
 Based on commercial land pricing, each Platform costed around 25,000/-, much beyond the affordable level of street vendors
 Many Platforms were purchased by non genuine people
 Hardly any Street Vendor shifted to this location
 Problem of Street Vendors remained unresolved
 Later efforts were made to organise them along an 18 m. wide road in the near vicinity
 Some grocery and daily needs shopkeepers have made steel structures, while vegetable vendors are selling vegetables in open as
before
 The layout Typology also desisted people to buy inner properties

22. Vegetable Market- Sector-5 Indira Nagar, Lucknow

23. Vegetable Market- Sector 5, Indira Nagar, Lucknow !!!

24. Plots meant for street vendors grabbed by the big
shots

25. Vacant Properties in prime most area of Lucknow?

27. Vegetable Market, Sector-17 Indira Nagar, Lucknow
 Similar to old Indira Nagar, lot of informal sector activity got
generated in the extension scheme, particularly near the
Munshipulia Chauraha
 To mitigate the problem, a vegetable market project was
implemented in sector -17.
 To make the properties affordable, land price was subsidised
 This Subjee Mandi is working well with all properties having
been allotted and an association of vendors formed.
 With the help of Association, this area is properly maintained and
serving the desired purpose.

28. Vegetable Market, Sector-17 Indira Nagar, Lucknow

32. Acknowledgements
 Randhir Kumar: The Regularization of Street Vending in Bhubaneswar,
India: A Policy Model
 Ramanath Jha: Strengthening urban India’s informal economy: The
case of street vending
 Deden Rukmana:Urban Planning and the Informal Sector in Developing
Countries
 Architecture & Planning Department, UP Housing & Dev. Board

33. THANKS
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